Re: Reply to Sarah's condensed message

On Monday 13 January 2003 7:37 am, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Sally Caves wrote:
> > Heh heh heh... that's been one of my goals, too, for Teonaht!  Actually,
> > 501 nouns would be better, because they are more irregular.
>
> A single fully inflected verb in Uatakassi would take up several
> *pages*  :-)  The last time I calculated it out, I think I came up with
> 5,000-some possible inflections.
Hmm..

Muëuä is quite efficient, and only has about 96 verb forms, due to it's clever
use of stress-rhythm as a grammatical device.   However, it used to not have
stress rhythm, and used inflections for it...

That makes...384 verb forms in Old Muëuä...(It was called Mëiä then,
however..)